The Centre

The Centre drives high-quality child and youth mental health services by setting the bar for excellence and collaborating with others to pursue continuous quality improvement. We promote evidence-informed service planning and delivery and support practical research to close knowledge gaps when they get in the way of effective and accessible services.

Purnima Sundar

Purnima Sundar is the Director of Knowledge Mobilization at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. She has 20 years of experience doing community-based, participatory action research and program evaluation in the areas of community mental health and diversity/multiculturalism. At the Centre, Purnima leads a team of experts to support practitioners to gather, share and use relevant information to strengthen services for children, youth and families, and works with government partners across ministries to facilitate knowledge mobilization within Ontario’s child/youth serving sectors.